DW: China flexes its patent muscle
A Chinese company is the leader in patent applications in Europe. And for the first time, China has received more patent filings than the USA, EU, Japan and South Korea combined. What does this all mean?
China is catching up in technological innovations. The country did well in the European Patent Office's ranking on Wednesday, with Huawei filing more patents in Europe than any other company, and the country as a whole advancing to fifth place for the first time.
When it comes to total patent applications, China has been the world's number one since 2011, since most patents are filed within the country. Given the country's enormous size and population, that might not be that surprising.
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WNU Editor: When I was working in China in the 1980s I enjoyed going to their universities. They knew thir stuff (i.e. science, engineering, etc.), but their resources were limited and at that time the students were more focused on protesting against the central government that eventually led to the 1989 Tiannamien massacre. On my last trip a few years ago .... I went to one university near Quanzhou (Fujian Province) that I had visited many times in the 1980s. Words cannot describe how much the place had changed in 25 years. My prediction .... if current trends continue 25 years from now China will easily be the leading nation when it comes to discovering new technologies, developments in science, and yes .... patents .... and we will be the ones who will be stealing/copying from them.
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W.n.u. i disagree, when you suppress the people's minds you stop the creative process. When 1 thousand minds decide what you think and know to 1.4 billion people that will never work in 10,000 years.
A better measure of creativity is patents granted, rather than applied for.
There was an article a few months ago (unfortunately I cannot recall where) which discussed Chinese universities, by a Westerner who was on the faculty for some years. The article said that the quality of Chinese academic work was low, with rampant cheating, bribery, and ideological influence. That does not sound like an academic setting in which original research will flourish.
I am also relatively unimpressed with these numbers, given China's massive, and intensifying, theft of Western intellectual property. If China were independently creating its own IP, it would not need to make such an effort to steal so much of ours.
Jeff and Publius.
My brother agrees with you. He is a scientist who works in Silicon Valley and his focus is in the biotech field and in submitting and checking patents. He has zero confidence that China has what it takes to be a leader in science and engineering.
My observation is simply historical from what I saw in the mid 1980s, and what I saw around 2004 or 2005 (if my memory serves me correct). As I said ... night and day.
What about all the patent violations and IP theft they've done? All the designs and ideas stolen. When will we address this?
Part of being inventive is having problems.
If you have manufacturing you have many problems. Necessity is the mother of invention.
A trite saying, but there is more than a little truth to it.
China has the manufacturing.
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